Catalogue No. - T-1807G

Some people say that Konami are the kings of shooters gone by with their Gradius games but I say that Technosoft's series of Thunder Force games are the kings of shooters gone by. Here we have Thunder Force Gold Pack 1 that features the first 2 Mega Drive Thunder Force games, Thunder Force II MD and Thunder Force III. Both games are 100% faithful to their original Mega Drive versions bar one thing. Technosoft went for the easy option as far as the audio was concerned. It's well known that emulating the Mega Drive's sound format is no walk in the park. So Technosoft just stuck all of the music tracks on to the CD for them to be streamed while the game was playing. The downer with this method is that the songs fade out half way through a level then repeat. This is really off putting and is really the only flaw with this collection. While it's not a big fall it's certainly one to make you cringe.

Apart from the awful music streaming this is well worth any classic shooter fans attention.